My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don't think that's true at all. What's cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

It is essential for America to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

The West appears to have decided for the Ukrainian people what their choice is. The EU does not condemn violent actions in Ukraine which are punishable in the West.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.